OT: Pickup Basketball Guy

who only can shoot! I can hit 3’s all day but suck at D. Some guys gave me the nick name Peja …..

maybe I’m the “Lazy shooter guy?”

the Little Big Man… but my definition would be the guy that is 5’11" with Mchale like Post moves, that should be a perimieter guy.

Then again… I was an excellent Practice guy. Blast this Body….

I’m kind of a Brockman-type. Enjoy banging around in the paint, have range out to about 15 feet, set the picks and clean up around the basket.

The guy I hate the most is the “arm-hair foul guy”. As in, you breath on him and he calls a foul, but hacks the crap out of you on the other end and gets indignant when you call a foul. THIS is the type of guy that gets tempers flaring.

I do best when I play near the basket and go for rebounds, put backs and short shots, but I like to extend the range a bit too much for my own good.

Fast, athletic, good shooter. When he gets hot, hard to stop. Avoids a lot of contact on defense. Doesn’t crash the boards as much as he should.

(I dont know why I was talking in the 3rd person)

I’ve been commenting at StR for over a year now and haven’t done a fanpost? I need to step my game up.

I love facilitating an offense and ball handing/passing, but I also hustle hard for boards, set tough picks, and defend the best/2nd best player on the opposing team. However, I have no outside shot, I can’t really finish after driving to the hoop, and I can’t use my post game because I’m 5’7". Basically I do all the little things to keep my team running.

I HATE the scorer, because often that person becomes extremely cocky and believes they can do just about anything on offense, and then lay off on defense to conserve their energy. I believe in a team game on both sides of the court and the scorer does exactly the opposite.

In my current physical shape I can easily run with the guys I play with, but half way through the night I am spent. My room mate and I will go play pick up ball and he is, with out a doubt, the Handicap. He always challenges guys to play 2 on 2 with us and 100% of the time HE bites off more than I can chew.

I also Hate the Scorer, but honestly more than the scorer, I despise the shooter. There is this kid that runs where I do and he CANNOT do anything but shoot ugly ass 3’s. He will miss 10 in a row and just when you think hes about to be done, he goes off for like 4 makes in a row and that just gives him the confidence to keep going. He was on my intramural team last year and we went 8-0 without him while he was taking a long vacation to see Obama’s inauguration. When he came back we lost 4 in a row to drop us out. The Shooter is a team killer, I think even more than the scorer.

Great read on the article and post. Very funny and true.

I am 23 now. When I was a couple years younger, I had no shot. I could drive and finish like tony parker or get to the line (I played in a summer league or two) and hit free throws. And play killer D.

Now though, I have a semblance of a shot. I’m 6ft and am the best defender whenever I play. I like defending guys bigger than me because I like to use my quickness. I have trouble against shorter, stocky guys that are as fast and stronger than me cause I only weigh 155. On offense, I don’t have great handles but my passing is great. I basically just drive to the basket when I can or post up if the matchup is right. I have developed a nice lefty hook.

I’m like Doug Christie with a better post game and worse shot.

if I hit the floor, you better get a mop to soak up the koi pond that I just placed underneath the basket

Also so out of condition now that 5 minutes of full court would have me vomiting up my shoes.

That would be me.

you know the guy at the end of the bench that dribbles the ball off his foot and onto the court, except I am not bald

Love playing defense above all else. Am a pretty good shooter all around the floor, but have horrible handles so I can’t drive very well. Like slashing and being the glue-guy that contributes a little to all aspects. Definitely can’t carry the scoring load myself though; much prefer to be a secondary or help scorer while focusing my energy on defending their best dude.

I also tore my ACL almost 2 months ago and had knee surgery a month ago to repair it. Rehabbing now and hoping to be back on the court in 2011 :‘( :’( :’(

I am the “used to have game” (back when the ball had laces, has a pair of Chuck Taylors signed by Chuck Taylor).guy.

Actually, the reason I stopped playing. You know when you are younger and the old guys actually were too slow to go for the first fake and so sometimes caught the second fake?
And they couldn’t move their feet so they just clogged the lane and played D by just being in the way?
Of course, that discounts the fact that on offense, you see the guy guarding you, look at his stance – easy, your mind says, easy, just drive by him on the left, except instead of taking that big first step you fall over? Or you go to dunk and you graze the net? In other words, your mind is writing checks your body can’t cash. No funds….

I hate that everybody wants me to post up on offense. I’m 6’6", which is pretty standard size for a two guard in the NBA, so why should I have to play center? On defense, I guard the biggest guy, which typically has me playing down low. But I’m a screen shooting 3-point specialist and slasher, with a love for passing from the high post. Why should I bang down low on offense, where my shooting percentage and overall effectiveness take a huge hit? Bring the big defender out to the perimeter to guard me and that makes it easier for the slashers to score on offense.

I’m the little big man except for the fact that I do rebound.

I play pick-up regularly at work during lunch – it’s pretty much the same guys every day, so even though it’s pick-up ball we all know everyone else’s game pretty well and can adjust according to how the day’s teams are composed. And, having that consistency and familiarity tends to keep people from becoming a Pickup Basketball Guy – there are a couple of guys that we have simply asked not to come out to play with us anymore, because they were just too obnoxious.

I’m also fortunate that most of the guys are on the upper end of the talent scale. One guy who plays every day was the starting point guard for a collegiate national champioinship team back in the day. Granted, it was NAIA, not NCAA, and he is just over 40 years old now, but most days he’s still the best player on the court. Great fun to play with a guy that good.

I would be down for some STR pickup. Coun’t me in as the guy that looks like a decent player for about 10 minutes and then can barely walk…

I averaged 15 rebounds per game when I played for a team but I was our team’s SG. I love the bank shot from about 15-18 feet away (once made 29 in a row at practice.), but I love bruising in the middle and I seem to have a good eye on where the ball is going to be when someone throws it up, then fight for position right where it will fall.

My ballhandling is not that great nor is my left hand. My offense mostly comes from offensive boards and spot up threes.

I’ll play any role that is needed

I’m a hybrid between big man and role player(6’4" /185 with a 6’7" wingspan, very fast and quick for my size, so yeah I have great length!!!) unless I’m playing with a lot of very good players who to played college ball, AAU or were great high school players then I morph into Tall Guy/Role Player. I rebound well, pass well, great shot blocker, play good D, have a solid post game and take it to the basket very effectively. My ball handling and jumper are very inconsistent though. In NBA terms I guess I would say I’m a cross between Andrei Kirilenko and Scott Pollard. And it seems every time I play pickup either at the gym or the park about 80% of the people that play are either Scorer, Shooter or Scoring PG. Which makes playing pickup very very frustrating a lot of times. Anyone else run into this??

Me and my 2 (count them 2) surgically repaired ACL’s. Not sure how much I have to give. But any excuse to play is good with me.

What about?

“I play body up defense with no shirt and am ultra-sweaty while always keeping my arms up and jumping frequently while sliding my torso against your face in anticipation of your shot guy”

Anybody play with him?

Pretty good shooter, very good stop and pop, no one seems to be able to defend it, can occasionally roll to the basket for a layup. Strickly right handed though.

Pretty pesky on D in space but not good at all on post defense

I’m the “One More To Play Guy”

Description: You will never catch this guy waiting to be picked for a team. When games are being organized this player will be found shooting awkwardly by himself at a near by hoop. Despite being overly enthusiastic and surprisingly athletic for his dense 6 foot, 240lb frame, this player’s lack of basketball experience will keep him away from your game until you absolutely need him. If a player goes down, or does not show, call on this guy to cover the slowest opponet on the defensive end, grab rebounds, set awkward but wide screens, and to pass the ball immediately upon catching it. Although he has proven that he knows nothing about playing basketball, teamates consistently offer him no help, leaving the player to continue to clog the lane and be out of position on defense. While he may not help you win, the “One More To Play Guy” will help you keep the game going.

who has no skills but is ridiculously annoying on defense and grabs more rebounds than anyone else out there but then throws up after the game. There chuckers and there’s me, the up chucker.

Just keep me informed so that I know how to plan. I haven’t played in a while, tho, so I might be a little rusty

1) The run the wrong way off of a screen guy.
2) The dribble for 30 seconds between the legs showing off then jack up a fade away 3 guy.
3) The shoot a 3 from 10 feet behind the arc guy.
4) The gets a breakaway steal and pulls up for a 3 instead of a layup guy (he never makes it).
5) The drive down the amazingly open lane (because i have just cleared out 3 guys) and then dump it off in my lap while I am triple teamed guy.
6) The run to the corner for a three and then look at the floor because I don’t want the ball guy.
And the one I hate the most…
7) The hey look…theres a ball in the air…what should i do? guy whos man has just got his 10th rebound. Box out young man!

I’m only 5’8" but I can jump well and I usually have better position. I usually have more rebounds than the rest of my entire team. It is also the only chance I get to score, since my range is about 12 feet.

The guy who for some inexplicable reason no point guard can ever manage to get around. No footwork fundamentals whatsoever but still quick. Not particularly long or big, and more often below average size. Not really strong either. Probably got picked on in school. Probably got picked last as well for the game. But he does a good job of tiring out the other team’s point guard so you stick with him…for the five minutes it takes for him to run out of gas.

On offense he sets screens. Probably because that’s the only thing he can’t really mess up. He’s also ALWAYS wide open for three, but nobody ever passes to him because you know he’s going to miss it. But there’s always that one time where you just feel he’s got it in him to make that shot. So you pull some fancy move and send him a perfect pass that he actually manages to catch despite the butterfingers. This is it! He pulls up for the jumper with nobody within ten feet of him. The ball looks so smooth rolling off his fingertips and it sails through the air…

…over the backboard.

Yeah. I’m THAT GUY. If you ever have an odd number of players, call me up. It’s really the only reason to do such a thing.